There’s a slim hope ventured by some in today’s articles about Senator Kennedy that perhaps his death might somehow help improve the prospects of health care reform by briefly relieving the partisan acrimony and serving as a reminder of the urgency of ...
But as the experts will all tell you, it really helps if adults walk the talk—or, in this case, forgo the talk while in the car. And because plain old phoning is not so self-evidently dangerous—after all, no one’s proposing that chatting in the car be ...
While you Gen Yers are bridling at your rep as “trophy kids,” overpraised for your potential, baby boomers got a less than flattering epithet from Walter Kirn this weekend: “Aptocrats,” he calls the strivers now at the pinnacles of success and ...
It’s a catchy, catty angle, that’s for sure: An article in today’s New York Times about a recent study of potential gender bias in Broadway theater opens by suggesting that women playwrights do indeed have more trouble getting their work produced than ...
I’m inclined to agree with him that the spectacle should make us adults squirm, too, at least a little. But I’m not sure the problem is that we’ve blown this event into something way too serious, as we do so many of our kids’ endeavors these days, ...
Can this marriage be saved? Yes, it can—through letters. Check out yesterday’s Op Ed in the Times by a military wife facing marital strains, who turned to an old-fashioned remedy. The life of military spouses certainly is anomalous (I also recommend ...
Now that my children are on the brink of adulthood, I have a fantasy of writing a 21st-century bildungsroman about a daughter, or maybe a son, whose coming-of-age story is a variation on The Truman Show. As she's leaving for college, my character will ...
"My youth began when I was twenty-one. At least, that's when I decided it began. That was when I started to think that all those shiny things in life—some of them might possibly be for me." These opening sentences of Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous ...
I blame, or bless, my mother for passing on this particular trait: Like her, I'm impatient with Mother's Day—with the commercialized hype and the saccharine pomp about a role that for the rest of the year gets either taken for granted or treated as a ...
Well before he championed the arts as “weapons of mass instruction” in his presidential campaign, Mike Huckabee was busy on behalf of the cause. He was also busy playing bass guitar in a rock band, Capitol Offense. It’s a hard act to follow, but lately ...
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